What is the lasting impact of the learning experience?
When it comes to the personal and professional growth of your team members, undergoing training is the single biggest driver for success.
Make their learning continuous andlifelong, and they hit the career jackpot. You also hit the jackpot forskilled, engaged, and knowledgeable staff. It adds value to you and theeveryday life of your team.
Why commit to a planned and testedpersonalised learning experience? There are so many benefits…
- Your team understands their motivations,and so do you
- You and your team analyse theirtraining needs
- You recognise their best individuallearning times
- They break habitual patterns
- They open upto new project design and management approaches
- They improve their teamwork
There are some added benefits in thelearning experience (LX) thanks to the relationship created between the trainerand learner. This can help shift the perception of team members, change theirvision, and spur them to find innovative solutions to your challenges andproblems.
What are the best 3 ways to engage your team in a learning experience?
- Arouse their interest
We do what we enjoy, don’t we? So, applythat principle to learning and make it an enjoyable experience.
One of the most effective waysis to usestorytelling. We devise a situation that participants experience in their dailylives, identify a problem and its consequences, and explain how training canhelp them to resolve it.
This learning through stories allows people to feel like there are both spectators and authors. It helps them to feel motivated to learn for themselves.
2. Grasp the emotion
A well-told story generates powerful emotions,which is part of the reason it is such a powerful learning tool.
It involves us at a deep level and helps usto remember events.
Think about highly emotional days such asthe birth of a child, graduation, or a major loss and think about how clearlywe remember the events.
So, once we’ve inspired these emotions, howcan they benefit the learning experience?
One way of harnessing these emotions is theuse of gamification in LX.
Games and challenges make participants feelcurious and absorbed. They have fun.
That stimulates action, competition, andthe achievement of a goal.
Of course, every small success along the way also makes a learner feel confident, something which is the subject of the third step in the process.
3. Boost self-confidence
Self-esteem is so important in the learningprocess. To be truly effective, the LX has to help participants become aware oftheir unique value. It needs to foster contentment and a feeling that eachparticipant is ‘enough’.
This self-confidence will help learnersexplore the full impact and value of the content of the training and apply itto their everyday lives in future.
It becomes a virtuous circle ofself-belief, learning, and achievement.